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Series Review: The Brothers Sinister by Courtney Milan

Greetings and welcome to Reviews That Burn: Series Reviews, part of Books That Burn. Series Reviews discuss at least three books in a series and cover the overarching themes and development of the story across several books. This review is for The Brothers Sinister by Courtney Milan. Full Audio Here   The Governess Affair Miss Serena Barton intends to hold the petty, selfish duke who had her sacked responsible for his crimes. But the man who handles all the duke's dirty business has been ordered to get rid of her by fair means or foul. She’ll have to prove more than his match… The Duchess War The last time Minerva Lane was the center of attention, it ended badly—so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention. But that is precisely what she gets... A Kiss for Midwinter Miss Lydia Charingford does her best to forget the dark secret that nearly ruined her life, hiding it beneath her smi...
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Animorphs Book 17: The Underground by K. A. Applegate

The Underground poses an ethical dilemma related to addiction, and it becomes clear that Cassie's role as the ethical voice is becoming too much. Rachel deals with claustrophobia and Marco laments that none of the great battles involved oatmeal.

Several of the previous books have featured Cassie's role as the voice of morals, reason, and ethics for the Animorphs. In The Underground we start to see that she isn't magically more mature than the rest of them, she's starting to not know what to tell them anymore. They're still kids, probably still in middle school (there hasn't been a direct reference to their level of school in a few books), and nothing is getting easier.

Rachel is the narrator for this one, and this book has a lot of depictions of claustrophobia. I'd have to go back in order to check whether this is a new problem brought on by the events in this book or whether it's been a thread for a while. If it has happened before I think it's been more associated with worrying about not getting out of morph than with being in a small space.

As always, the nightmares are getting worse. Not only are they more frequent, but more of the book is devoted to describing what they are or at least that Rachel is having them.

A girl (Rachel) turns into a bat

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